Campion News, Hilary Term 2015 page 1 Campion News The Newsletter of Campion Hall, Oxford University Number 3, Hilary Term 2015

Campion Warmly Commended

Photo Brendan Callaghan SJ University Praise for the Hall

“THE COMMITTEE . . . was most impressed by the These were the main conclusions of the recently quality of the Hall’s students, by its scholarly pur- released Report of Oxford University’s Supervisory posefulness and positive approach. Albeit on a Committee for its Permanent Private Halls, follow- small scale and notwithstanding its single-sex sta- ing on the Committee’s review of Campion in Trin- tus, Campion Hall seemed to the Committee to pro- ity Term 2014. The ten-strong Supervisory Com- vide an exemplar of how an academic community mittee and its officers visited the Hall on the after- should operate. The high standard of its community noon of 30 May and noon of 30 May and held -based academic life, and the central place of an meetings with the Master, the academic and admin- egalitarian ethos supporting academic endeavour istrative staff and students to discuss the self- were confirmed by all those whom the Committee evaluation which the Hall had pre-submitted, and to met. ” (7). tour the Hall under the guidance of two postgradu-

Campion News Hilary 2015 Campion News, Hilary Term 2015 page 2 ate students and consider its membership, pro- grammes, facilities and amenities, before having From the Master afternoon tea with the Hall’s community. At the beginning of a new year and new term it is enormously gratifying and encouraging to Commenting further on the Middle Common Room have The Report on Campion Hall from the Su- (concentrating now on postgraduate studies, the pervisory Committee for the University’s Perma- Hall possesses no Junior Common Room), the Re- nent Private Halls (PPHs) referred to in these port observes that “the international diversity of its pages. Seven years ago, the Lucas review of all students . . . and of its academic visitors is strik- the University’s PPHs commented approvingly ing” (8). Likewise, in considering the Senior Com- of Campion that it provided “evidence of a mon Room, it remarks that “Its current fellowship strong community culture and collective rela- is small in number . . ., but of high calibre” (7). tionships”, adding that “there is a preoccupa- tion with intellectual matters, and the research Mutual opportunities output of the Hall is at a good level of quali- The reviewing Committee welcomed the Master’s ty”(6). comment that the Jesuit Order, which is the spon- soring authority of Campion, considers the Hall as The recent Report serves to confirm and representing an unusual opportunity, insofar as strengthen this favourable impression of Campi- through the Hall the Jesuit Order has the opportuni- on. Its detailed approval of the student, research ty to be part of a world-leading higher education and other features, for which the Committee institute, profiting from its resources and in turn considers the Hall distinguished, highlights even offering its own contribution to the University’s life further the academic and community strengths of and activities. Accordingly, while welcoming the this institution. However, the Report also ob- news that the British Jesuit Provincial Superior has served that Campion Hall could be better known invited the Master to develop a strategic plan for within the University and offers its own explicit the Hall’s future, the University Committee also encouragement, both to the Hall and to the Uni- “believes that this creates an opportunity which the versity, to collaborate in increasing Campion’s University also needs to recognise and to act up- presence and impact in the work and life of Ox- on” (11). ford. It is my hope that a major feature of the coming year will be a consideration of A striking congruity how best to implement the recommendations The Report recognises that Campion Hall could be proposed to us to develop and expand Campi- better known in the wider university, since “the on’s synergy with the University congruity of its aims and ethos with those of the University is striking. . . The Committee believes It is a very happy coincidence that when the Ox- that broader engagement enabling the Hall to make ford PPH committee was beginning its formal a greater contribution to — and to be more widely review of Campion Hall, our Jesuit Superior valued by — the University should now definitely General in Rome addressed a letter to the whole be on the agenda” (11). Order on the subject of the Jesuit intellectual apostolate. He recalled that “the long tradition Many of the Committee’s recommendations (40) of the involvement of the in the apply its concluding conviction that “there should intellectual apostolate forms part of our reli- be greater engagement between the University and gious identity”, but he added that we cannot rest the Hall,” and that this will entail “a growth in post- in the past: “a renewal of our efforts is needed graduate numbers and in the number of academic in every generation because of the constantly staff of the Hall” (37), as well as support being pro- changing context of this important work”. vided by the University to the Hall’s art, library and document collections. “It has much to gain from So, whether we believe in new year resolutions integrating Campion Hall more closely, and the or not, there is clearly much stimulating work to possibility of doing so should not be missed” (30). do in 2015 AMDG.

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New Secretary Appointed Contents

1 Campion Warmly Commended 2 From the Master

3 Contents New Secretary Appointed

Jesuit Alumni Lunch 4 Campion Matriculations 2014

Georgetown Visitors

A New Publication 5 Campion Hall – What’s In a Name

IT IS WITH PLEASURE that we report the appointment 8 A New Campion Website of Sarah Gray as the new Secretary of Campion The Newman Lecture 2015 Hall. Her early working life included six years in the City of in a small Swedish bank. Then Campion Congratulations ten years were spent in the political world, working 9 The Jesuit Institute of Education in Westminster and doing wide-ranging constituen- cy work. Her previous roles in the University in- 10 The Oxford Catholic Chaplaincy clude working for the St Peter’s College Founda- 11 Treasures of Campion Hall, 3: tion, and then as Executive Assistant to the former Warden of The Rhodes Trust and subsequently as The Library part of its Development team. Sarah has already 12 Supporting Campion Hall made herself a valued member of the Hall commu- nity, and is also Personal Assistant to the Master.

Jesuit Alumni Lunch

JUST BEFORE the Christmas vacation the Hall held another lunch for Jesuit alumnae and alumni studying at the university, which was well attended and very much enjoyed by all. Maintaining their connection with the Society is something which is greatly valued by both parties. Further regular events are planned for the future, including a Holy Week re- treat to be held in the Hall for our former Jesuit stu- dents.

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IN MANY non-collegiate universities, the term WE WELCOME Dr “matriculation” refers simply to students being Oriana Skylar Mas- listed and registered with the university. In Oxford, tro and her husband, however, a student is first accepted by a college, Arzan, who will be and then he or she is presented formally by their with us during Hilary college to the University at a matriculation ceremo- and Michaelmas terms. ny held in the Sheldonian Theatre, at which each is She is an assistant pro accepted by the University to study for an appropri- fessor of security ate degree. studies at the Edmund Last term the following three Jesuit postgradu- A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown ate students of Campion Hall were presented for University. After graduating in East Asian Studies matriculation for the doctorate by the Master’s rep- at Stanford, she gained her doctorate in Politics at resentative, Fr James Campbell: Princeton University, and is a Fellow of several se- Fr Emilio Travieso SJ comes from Florida, and is curity institutions. Her current focus includes Chi- beginning to study for the DPhil in International nese military and security policy and Asia-Pacific Development. The domestic duty he has picked up security issues. She will work on post-World War II on joining the Campion community is that of Li- wartime diplomacy, evaluating the conditions under brary Assistant. which leaders are open to peace talks, and when they Fr Cristoforo Fajardo SJ is from the Philippines refuse to entertain them. She is also a member of the and recently graduated STL in the Gregorian Uni- US Air Force Reserve, for which she works as a re- versity in Rome. He is now beginning his DPhil in serve air attaché for the Asia-Pacific region. international human rights, and is also occupied in Her husband, Arzan, worked for 13 years in the looking after the Hall’s photocopying room. Australian Department of Defence, and is an MPhil/ Fr Gerard Ryan SJ is a native of Ireland and a PhD student at King’s College London. At Oxford, graduate of Toronto University. He plans to take he will continue working on his dissertation on In- his DPhil on the theme of the theology of love and dia’s use of force. They both love travelling, eating, mutual recognition. His is the pleasant domestic and spending time with friends; and look forward to office of being assistant cellarer in the Hall. doing all three while at Campion Hall! A New Publication Senior Research Fellow Revd Professor John Barton, Emeritus Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpreta- tion of Holy Scripture, presenting his latest book to an appreciative audience in the Campion Hall Com- mon Room. Published by Oxford University Press, Ethics in Ancient Israel is a study of ethical thinking in ancient Israel from around the eighth to the second century BC, based primari- ly on the Old Testament/ Hebrew Bible and Apocry- pha, but also on other an- cient Jewish writings, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls and various anonymous and pseudonymous texts from shortly before the New Testament period.

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Campion Hall –What’s In a Name ampion Hall University of Oxford is named illustrious Elizabethan Age, and substantially re- after , the Jesuit priest stored and pursued her father’s reform of the C who worked underground Church of England as its supreme in Elizabethan England caring spir- head, including a repressive and itually for his persecuted fellow- punitive policy towards her recalci- Catholics. Queen Elizabeth’s royal trant Catholic subjects. One of these father, Henry VIII, had broken with was Edmund Campion, who was the when the Pope executed in 1581 at Tyburn on be- refused to permit him to divorce his ing found guilty of the charge of wife, his brother’s widow, in order treason against the queen. to marry a second wife in the hope that she would be more successful A change of direction in producing a male heir to succeed Campion was born the gifted son of him. To legitimate his divorce, a bookseller near St Paul’s in Lon- Henry had the English Parliament don in 1540, the year in which Ig- proclaim him supreme head of the natius of Loyola founded the Jesuit Church in England (Oath of Royal Edmund Campion Order which Campion would even- Supremacy, 1534), and as such he tually join. After his early education proceeded to introduce changes in the church’s be- at Christ’s Hospital School he was received into St liefs and practices along the lines of the Refor- Johns College Oxford by its founder, and duly took mation which the theologian, Martin Luther, had the required Oath of Supremacy, with the prospect begun to introduce into the Church in Germany. of future priestly ordination in the new Church of England. As a Fellow of St John’s, he graduated A religious seesaw Master of Arts in 1564 and became an influential Unhappily, none of Henry’s subsequent wives pro- lecturer in rhetoric until he was to leave Oxford in duced a healthy male heir, and he was survived by 1570. He also studied theology for some five years only a sickly son who died at the age of sixteen, and was ordained deacon, apparently not without leaving him with two daughters, Princess Mary, personal theological misgivings. The height of his born of the original queen Catherine of Aragon, and incipient university career was no doubt the occa- the younger Princess Elizabeth, born of his second sion in 1566 when he was chosen to welcome the wife, Anne Bolyn, who supplanted Catherine. Queen to the College and also conduct an impres- In the process of reforming the beliefs and wor- sive Latin disputation, which led Her Majesty to ship of the national church of which he, not the promise Master Campion her patronage, an honour Pope, was now considered supreme head under and a distinction which seemed fair to ensure for God, the King took steps to outlaw and punish any him a favoured academic and political future. of his subjects who persisted in maintaining the old However, Campion became preoccupied with Catholic religion, even to executing some of them personal religious questioning and left Oxford in for their allegedly traitorous behaviour. 1570, having decided to become a Catholic. Pursu- When Henry died in 1547, his young son sur- ing his religious studies at the English College re- vived him as King Edward VI for only six years. He cently established in the University of Douai in was followed by Queen Mary, who had during her France for English Catholics fleeing persecution, he father’s reign privately preserved her Catholic faith determined there to join the recently founded and and practices, and who on taking the throne pro- intellectually challenging Jesuit Order, and walked ceeded strenuously to reverse the English Refor- to Rome to seek admission to its ranks. He then mation and to restore the old faith and the union continued with supplementary Jesuit studies in Pra- with the papacy. She, however, died after only five gue and Brunn, being ordained a Catholic priest, more years, and her reign was followed by that of and then being appointed professor of rhetoric and her younger half-sister, Elizabeth, who initiated the philosophy in the Jesuit college in Prague.

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Mission thwarted conveniently owned by Catholic recusants, his be- In 1580 the Jesuit Superior General decided with trayal and arrest after about a year’s missionary ac- some hesitation to send some of his men to England tivity was the almost inevitable result of his preach- to support the surviving Catholics and promote the ing regularly and indiscriminately to groups of Catholics. Lengthy imprisonment in the Tower of London and regular questioning and torture, and exhausting disputations, led to his being found guilty of high treason against the queen, and sen- tenced to be brutally executed for his crime. This duly followed at Tyburn Tree, now Marble Arch in London, on 1st December, 1581, an event which led four hundred years later to Campion’s being sol- emnly proclaimed in Rome by Pope Paul VI a saint of the Catholic Church, one of the Forty English and Welsh Martyrs of that period.

Catholics not wanted As it happened, and perhaps not unconnected with Stonor Park, Henley-on-Thames Campion, that same year 1581 saw it decreed that Catholic cause there; and a reluctant Campion ar- henceforth all Oxford undergraduates must sub- rived disguised as a jewel merchant from Dublin, scribe to the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of under the direction of his fellow-Jesuit, Robert Per- England. This requirement, which obviously ex- sons, who, before himself becoming a Catholic and cluded Catholics and nonconformists from matricu- a Jesuit, had been the Bursar of Balliol College, Ox- lating at the University, was eventually removed in ford. 1871 by Gladstone’s Universities Tests Act, his ear- The missionary team was betrayed both before lier 1829 Catholic Emancipation Act having ren- and after its arrival in England, where, in expecta- dered Catholicism publicly less unacceptable. But tion of being soon apprehended, Campion com- the Catholic bishops of England then followed the posed a defiant proclamation of their exclusively Vatican in prohibiting their subjects from attending religious aims in a statement which he intended to Oxford, for fear they would be religiously endan- be delivered to Elizabeth’s Privy Council in the gered by contact with what was considered a event of the Jesuits’ arrest and interrogation. The Protestant and heretical University. proclamation was produced at Stonor Park near The episcopal prohibition was relaxed by the Henley, the house of the prominent Catholic Vatican in 1895, and the opportunity was immedi- Camoys family which became a refuge and base for ately seized upon by the Ampleforth Benedictines the Jesuit missionaries, as well as the seat of their and the English Jesuits to open houses of study in clandestine printing press; and it was immediately Oxford. This would enable their respective young leaked prematurely, becoming publicly and dispar- members to gain prestigious Oxford degrees (which agingly known as Campion's Brag (Boast). This were often held by their religious superiors who had was followed by Campion’s further publication, ad- later converted), and to staff their schools in Britain dressed now to the University, of his “Ten Rea- and their mission territories overseas. (The Domini- sons” (Decem Rationes) for rejecting the Anglican cans, having no schools, established Blackfriars Church. Four hundred copies of this treasonable Hall later, in 1929.) Thus in 1896, with the permis- publication were printed at Stonor and discreetly sion of the local Catholic hierarchy and the approval laid out on the benches of the University church of of the University, one Fr Richard Clarke SJ, MA St Mary the Virgin, to the astonishment of its arriv- (Oxon), a Fellow of St John’s, and later of Trinity ing worshippers, with the consequence that the gov- (and a victorious 1859 Rowing Blue, as shown by ernment campaign to discover and destroy these his oar still on display in Campion’s lecture room), turbulent Jesuit priests became even more deter- exercised his right as an Oxford Master to set up his mined and aggressive. private hall in the university, in property leased in As the now notorious Campion, “the seditious St Giles from St John’s College, near the Jesuit St Jesuit”, moved discreetly among the country houses Aloysius’ parish Church; and to matriculate, teach

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for undergraduates, with part of it dating from the sixteenth century. Moreover, and highly significant- ly, through a mutual friend D’Arcy arranged for the internationally celebrated architect, Sir Edwin Lu- tyens, to design the new university hall for him there. The new Campion Hall opened in 1936, winning many tributes for the way Lutyens had made such impressive use of the rather cramped site and incor- porated, at the request of the Oxford Preservation Trust, part of the former Micklem Hall and its orig- inal garden and fountain. Lutyens’ full design for the Hall remained incomplete until 1958, when a west wing was built to accommodate more Jesuit students. Lutyen’s Campion Hall incorporating Micklem Hall (left) A new focus. and present Catholic undergraduates for Oxford de- The role and focus of Campion Hall in Oxford Uni- grees. Oxford Private Halls were initially called af- versity have shifted over the years. From being es- ter their Master, so what is now known as Campion tablished over a century ago by the Jesuit order to Hall was first named Clarke’s Hall, then Pope’s qualify its younger British members to teach in its Hall after his successor, Thomas O’Fallon Pope, then more than fifteen schools, it has become more and so on. In 1918 the then Plater’s Hall was grant- an international centre, enabling a selection of Jesuit ed University status as a Permanent Private Hall postgraduate students from all over the world, with (PPH). As such, it was formally renamed Campion a few other male graduate students, to undertake Hall by the University, on the application of the Jes- research and doctorate studies, as commended in the uit Order, and was empowered to take occasional recent University Report (see pages one-two); and non-Jesuit as well as Jesuit undergraduate students. its alumni are now spreading throughout all five Subsequent early Masters of the Hall were Fr continents to occupy senior academic positions and Henry Keane and Fr Ernest G. Vignaux; until on the to put into effect, as far as is given them, the Hall’s death of the latter in 1933, Fr Martin C. D’Arcy be- motto of “Saying the truth in love” (veritatem fa- came the Hall’s Master for twelve years until 1945, cientes in caritate, Eph 4:15). Whatever expression when he was appointed Provincial Superior of the it takes, however, Campion Hall remains an aca- British Jesuits. On his appointment as Master, Fr demic religious community devoted to scholarship D’Arcy soon became the celebrity he remained for and integrity imbued with Christian faith, as indeed most of his life, and after his death in 1976 Campi- was its chosen patron. on Hall established in his honour the annual Martin The coat of arms granted to Campion Hall, D’Arcy Memorial Lectures, which are usually de- shown here, commemorates the martyrdom of the livered by a fellow-Jesuit. Jesuit Saint Edmund Campi- As the new Master, on, by depicting a cross D'Arcy inherited plans to flanked with two campion rebuild Campion Hall in St flowers and with a wolf’s Giles’ on the impending head at its centre, this being expiry of its current lease a heraldic symbol of the from St John’s College, Loyola family (lobo = wolf), but he found the proposals of which a distinguished displeasing to his taste. He member, Iñigo, founded the favoured instead purchas- Jesuit Order. Above are two ing in 1935 Micklem Hall crossed palm branches of victory on a gold crown Martin C. D’Arcy SJ in Brewer Street, a former of triumph, illustrating the Christian belief in the Master 1933-1945 University boarding-house significance of dying for one’s faith.

Campion News Hilary 2015 Campion News, Hilary Term 2015 page 8 A New Campion Website “WE DON’T WANT just a mes- Hall’s interior conducted by the sage board”, explained the re- Master shows off the rich collec- cently appointed Master, James . tion of paintings, portraits, Hanvey. “We want something sketches and statuary which be- fresh which will show the life gan to be acquired and collected and the diversity of this interna- by the celebrated Master of the tional academic and religious Hall, Martin C. D’Arcy SJ, when community”. And it looks as if the Hall was built, and which in that will be the attractive impres- time gained it the affectionate sion given by the new Campion collective description of objets Hall website which will be intro- d’Arcy. An important feature duced early in the new year. The will be the individual pages pro- aim is to do justice not only to vided for members of the Hall, the resident academic and reli- to contain accounts of their gious community and its activi- background and of their activi- ties, but also to the history of the ties and projects, including their Hall and its striking building and publications, research interests contents. A video-tour of the and email addresses. The Newman Lecture 2015 Dr Lisa Sowle Cahill, the internationally distinguished American moral theo- logian and ethicist, will deliver the annual Newman Lecture at Campion Hall on Friday 6th March at 5 p.m. After graduating as a theologian from the Jesuit Santa Clara University, she proceeded to the University of Chicago Divinity School to take her PhD under the supervision of James Gustafson. Having been Visiting Professor of Catholic Theology at Yale University, she is now J. Don- ald Monan Professor at Boston College. Her lecture will be on Marriage and the Family and the Upcoming Synod. The Newman Lecture is sponsored in turn by Campion Hall, St Benet’s Hall and Blackfriars Hall. Campion Congratulations

WE WARMLY CONGRAT- emerging public Internet, and international discus- ULATE our regular visit- sions on climate change. In his last ten years at the ing scholar, Michael OECD Michael served as Director General for Oborne, on the recent Strategic Foresight, concerned with energy supply honour paid to him by and the environment, an aging worldwide popula- the Dominican School of tion, the future of the family, and issues in bio- Philosophy and Theolo- technology and bio-economy. gy in Berkeley, Califor- Following his retirement from the OECD in nia. Having gained de- 2011 he has directed the Las Casas Institute at our grees in several universi- Dominican neighbour in Oxford, Blackfriars Hall, ties around the world, he worked for the Organiza- where he teaches as a Fellow, as well as in Italy tion for Economic Cooperation and Development and Paris. In recognition of his distinguished eco- (OECD) in Paris for 31 years, first becoming nomic and cultural career, the Dominican School closely involved in China and publishing studies of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, Califor- of its economic emergence; and then being ap- nia, recently had pleasure in conferring on him the pointed Deputy Director for the Science and Tech- degree of Doctor of Humane Letters honoris nology Division, where he undertook, among causa, and admitting him a Fellow of the School.

many other projects, the first studies on the Vivat!

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The Jesuit Institute of Education

Campion Hall is the preferred venue for the regu- lar conferences organised by the British Jesuit In- stitute of Education, a thriving partnership of UK Jesuits and lay people who work to provide inspi- ration, resources and training for the eleven Jesuit schools of the British Province of the Society of Jesus.

The Institute is guided by the experienced Jesuit educationalist, Fr Adrian Porter, who is the former head of St Aloysius’ College, Glasgow, later of London’s Wimbledon College. It aims to help its members (governors, school leaders, teachers, support staff, parents and pupils) to understand, promote and live out the vision and spirit of St Ig- Just talk among yourselves for a bit natius Loyola, the 16th century founder of the Or- der, who gave Jesuit colleges the aim of Time was made available to tour the neighbouring “improvement in living and learning, for the great- (Jesuit-run) University Catholic chaplaincy (see er glory of God and the common good.” page 11), and also to meet and chat with some un- dergraduates who are former students of British Good practice from around the world Jesuit schools. In its regular meetings and conferences the British Jesuit Institute shares resources and good practice Are three Heads better than one? from around the world, while it creates and com- One unique feature of the latest conference was missions new resources for Jesuit schools and, by that its members had the occasion to meet and lis- invitation, schools belonging to other traditions. ten to three former heads of St Aloysius’ College in Glasgow, the originally boys-only school dedi- Their recent Campion conference in November cated to the Jesuit student saint which made a ma- 2014 comprised sixteen Deputy Heads of School, jor contribution to creating a Catholic professional men and women, who were addressed, and reflect- middle class among the Irish immigrants of the ed prayerfully, on the subjects of: West of Scotland, as well as educating many of - The Jesuit Identity and Mission of Our Schools their future local Catholic clergy. Adrian Porter, - Using the Jesuit Pupil Profile now Director of the Institute, who was Head of St - The Spirit of Jesuit Education; and Aloysius from 1995 to 2004, had invited as guest - The Apostolic Core and Staff Formation. speakers both Mr John Stoer, the College’s first lay head from 2004-2013, and Fr James Hanvey SJ, now the Master of Campion and host of the conference, who had previously been head of St Aloysius from 1991-1995 before becoming Head of Department at Heythrop College in London. One young participant observed that she found it alarming to find herself in the company of three headmasters at the same time!

“The Spirit of Jesuit Education” A new film exploring the British tradition of Jesuit education has been released, and information Fr Porter, Fr Hanvey, Master, and Mr Stoer about this and further details of the Institute are obtainable from .

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Treasures of Campion Hall, 3: The Library shelves, also the small "chapel" rooms that Lutyens had added (to cater for the many priests saying their individual Masses). One of these became the Li- brarian's Office; and the former chapel was devoted to housing complete works of theologians (like Aquinas and Luther). On the First Floor, the computer room now houses Politics (Po), Economics (Ec) and So- ciology (So), and the Art Room (Fr Ian Brailey's old chapel) now holds the spe- cial collection built up by Fr Vincent Turner. At present anyone searching for books on Theology (T) needs to look in different places: TODAY the main Library Room (above) at Campi- the Main Library, the Narrow Library (running on Hall balances the Dining Room, and fills all the parallel), the FX Room, and the Lecture Room, narrow ground floor of the site Lutyens had at his where some of the major spirituality (Sp) collec- disposal. The legend is that for aesthetic reasons tions are housed. To assist in the process, there is (to enhance the feeling of height) he wanted the an up-to-date card catalogue, but plans to comput- books to be arranged simply by size, with the erize this are now on hold, awaiting the considera- smaller ones on the top shelves and the larger ones ble funding needed. The future of the library prob- lower down. Fortunately the Librarians thought ably lies in building up our Jesuitica, already quite otherwise. Principal among these was Fr Vincent strong, and the theology/spirituality/scripture sec- Bywater, to whom we owe the present classifica- tions. tion system, with letters indicating the respective areas – including F for Fun (music, sport, etc.). From the small rare book collection, most items But probably the Librarian to whom we owe most were sold, but anything of Jesuit importance was is Fr Norman Tanner, who was in charge for many donated to the great Leuven collection of Jesuiti- years, ably assisted by Mr Laurence Weeks ca, apart from a few books that passed into the (fortunately still with us) and more recently by Archives or joined the Province collection. How- Miss Anne Watkins. ever, exceptional among our holdings remain the One problem has been that over the years, more 124 volumes of the Acta Sanctorum and (thanks to and more space has been needed to house the col- a recent donor) a rare copy of the infamous lections. Initially the Hall was catering mainly for Monita Secreta that did such harm to the Society. classical students, with a sprinkling of mathemati- Another library gem is the cians and scientists. These, usually undergradu- Duke of Alba's reprint of the ates, were being trained to take up teaching posts Spanish mid-14th century in the many schools the Jesuit Provincia Angliae Alba Bible (donated by the was then running. Theology at Oxford was viewed Duke at the inauguration of with distrust, and only in recent years – but with the new Campion Hall). Our ever greater appreciation – have members of the one incunabulum is the 16th Hall joined that faculty. Philosophy was different, c. bound volume of two 15th as it came under the umbrella of "Greats". Howev- c. commentaries on Aristo- er, for many years the best stocked parts of the tle's Physics, that had be- Library, apart from Classics (A "Ancient World"), longed to St Edmund Campi- were English literature (E) and History (H). The on - a generous gift from the Library gradually took over a number of other Merton College Library in Joseph Munitiz SJ rooms: the large Lecture Room was fitted with 1936. Librarian

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The Oxford University Catholic Chaplaincy

Since The Oxford Catholic Chaplaincy was en- enough evenings in the term to fulfil them. Some- trusted by the Bishops of England and Wales to the how, these celebrations of Mass build up our rela- tionships with the Anglican and other Christian communities in each College, despite the still- existing obstacle that we cannot invite non- Catholics to receive Holy Communion.

Student groups The Chaplaincy flourishes because many groups of students organise activities themselves with the help of the . The Newman Cathsoc (The Newman Society) cooks and serves a hot meal and organises a talk each Thursday during term on a wide variety of topics, as well as mounting social events. There are numerous prayer groups, includ- ing the Christian Life Community, inspired by St The Old Palace Ignatius. The St Vincent de Paul Group takes tea and coffee to the homeless each morning; and last British Jesuits in 2007, it has been part of the pas- term an Aid to the Church in Need group started up toral outreach of Campion Hall. At present the Hall in response to the persecution of Christians around provides two official Catholic Chaplains resident in the world. the neighbouring Old Palace, Fr Dushan Croos SJ, the Senior Catholic , and Fr Keith Mac- Nurturing faith Millan SJ, an Assistant Chaplain; while other Each term, students organise a Nightfever prayer members of the Hall make important contributions vigil, during which some pray before the Blessed by helping regularly with Masses, confessions, Sacrament while the Sacrament of Reconciliation spiritual guidance and other ministries. is celebrated; some play quiet prayerful music; and others invite passers-by to come into the Church, to Accompanying students light a candle, to stay in quiet listening to music, Father Croos writes: One might imagine that the and perhaps to write an intention of prayer. This University Chaplains’ work consists mainly of has resulted in a group called Intentional Disciples, serving tea to students, but although we do that a who plan to lead in the Spring a Catholic Alpha lot, often accompanied by cake, it is as a means of Course, which will offer a basic understanding of comforting and encouraging them when they need Christianity to those who know little about it. to talk. We remind the students regularly that our Each November we offer a Week of Guided most important role is to welcome students and Prayer, coordinated by Steve Hoyland, the experi- other members of the University for conversation enced lay outreach worker of the about whatever might be helpful to them, and that Jesuits in Britain who takes Ig- all the other activities are only to impress our man- natian Spirituality to University agement committees so they continue to fund us! Chaplaincies. This year no few- Nevertheless, as the parish for members of the er than sixty-five students came, University, we also have regular celebrations of some from other Christian com- Mass and prayer times, and we prepare for and cel- munities, and were accompanied ebrate marriages and baptisms. We accompany the by fifteen guides, some from the Dushan Croos vocational discernment of students individually Hall, in the busiest or most difficult week of term. and in a Samuel Group [if puzzled, see 1 Samuel In all, the canopy of the Old Palace covers a 3:1-10!] On most evenings in term, we also cele- rich spectrum of activities, and I hope that those brate Mass in different College Chapels. It is one choosing to attend the Chaplaincy experience here of the great privileges of the Catholic Chaplaincy what the founders of the Chaplaincy desired, the to the University to be welcomed by the (Anglican) nurturing of their faith, leading them as men and College chapels to celebrate Mass there each term. women for others to transform the world as their The requests are so generous, that there aren’t Creator wishes.

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Supporting Campion Hall

CAMPION HALL is a ministry of the Jesuits in Britain as a registered charity, number 230165 (Trustees for Roman Catholic Purposes Registered). As a Permanent Private Hall of Oxford University, Campion Hall does not receive any public funding from the Government, nor from any other source. It relies totally on private financial support to meet its costs and activ- ities. The Hall warmly welcomes all financial donations from individuals as well as institutions to promote its work. Benefactors can, but need not, specify a purpose for their donation. Financial support for Campion Hall can take the form of

 A one-off donation by cheque  A regular monthly, quarterly or annual donation by Banker’s Order  A bequest in an individual will  Sponsoring, in whole or in part, a particular post, section or activity of Campion Hall  Sponsoring and naming a particular post, part, section or activity of Campion Hall for a fixed number of years.

A single donation can be made to Campion Hall either by cheque or by credit or debit card through a secure on-line payment site, which is provided on request. Campion Hall acknowledges all donations by post. Gift Aid Declaration (for UK benefactors). The value of a gift by a UK taxpayer can be increased by 25% under the Gift Aid scheme. Donors need only state that they wish Campi- on Hall to treat as Gift Aid donations this and all other donations that they make from the date of their declaration until further notice. On their behalf, Campion Hall then claims back the tax from Inland Revenue. In other words, it reclaims a further 25p on every £1 that is do- nated. U.S. benefactors. Americans for Oxford, Inc. (AFO), is the University of Oxford’s primary charitable organization in North America, and as such it accepts gifts in support of Oxford and its Colleges and Permanent Private Halls, including Campion Hall. AFO has been deter- mined by the United States Internal Revenue Service to be a tax-exempt public charity. For information and instructions on donating to Campion Hall through AFO see the information and form available from the web site

CAMPION NEWS is produced termly in Campion Hall, Brewer St, Oxford, OX1 1QS, and is printed and distributed by the Holywell Press, Oxford. It is also available on line linked to www.campion.ox.ac.uk Communications should be emailed to the Editor, Jack Mahoney SJ, at [email protected]

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